Oscar Robertson Quotes About Basketball

Quotes about: Basketball

• You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.

  Oscar Robertson

  Success, Basketball, Sports

• It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could be down 30 points but that's what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Get back down the floor on defense!

  Oscar Robertson

  Motivational, Basketball, Guy

• They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Sports, School

• I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Thinking, Able

• I played when I played, and played, I think, against the greatest players in the greatest time in the history of basketball.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Player, Thinking

• The players have no real self-esteem when it comes to putting the best image out there in a real competitive fashion.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Fashion, Real

• Basketball is basketball.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball

• I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Jobs, Thinking

• But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Stars, Thinking

• It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Country, Real

• Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Player, Games

• When I started playing, I wasn't fast, I was gangly, my jumpshot was terrible.

  Oscar Robertson

  Motivational, Basketball, Terrible

• The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Way, Coaches

• But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, People, Use

• I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Thinking, Years

• The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Team, Games

• When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Couple, Moving

• When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Block, Play

• But when I did it (the triple-double), I didn't even know it until someone told me.

  Oscar Robertson

  Motivational, Basketball, Knows

• Just because it is an All-Star Game doesn't mean that you are playing as efficiently as you should.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Stars, Mean

• The triple-double is just a stat. It's a test of your strength and stamina and playing ability, really.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Tests, Ability

• Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Thinking, Today

• When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Player, People

• College coaches want to power the ball inside, they want (their post players) to power the ball up, but no one can shoot from that 15-foot area anymore.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Player, College

• I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Teaching, Thinking

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